NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks in New York have closed trading with losses. Earlier in the day, the visit of top American politician Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan caused caution among investors. In addition, comments from a leader of the Federal Reserve showed that the central bank umbrella is far from planning to stop raising interest … Read more
BILTHOVEN (AP) – Another 60 people have tested positive for the monkeypox virus in recent days. As a result, the total number of confirmed infections in the Netherlands has risen to 878, the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment reports. Last Monday the counter stood at 818 registered cases and last Thursday at … Read more
Dr Carole K. Hooven is a professor at Harvard University who conducts research on testosterone. She says in Die Zeit that the hormone has a greater influence on men’s behavior than you might think. Hooven studied the influence of testosterone on chimpanzees in Uganda early in her career. She saw how drastic the difference in … Read more
The pharmaceutical industry has been searching for a safe and effective remedy for obesity for decades. Logically, humanity has never been so fat. In trials, a new drug resulted in an average reduction of 22.5 percent in body weight. Fourteen percent of the Dutch have a BMI of more than 30, so they are called … Read more
If you take too much vitamin D for a long time, it can damage your heart, kidneys and blood vessels. You may also experience nausea, sleepiness, loss of appetite or constipation if you take too much vitamin D. It is a ‘wealth’ ailment: too many vitamins from food or the sun (vitamin D) is almost … Read more
Today, some GPs are prescribing diabetes medications for obesity. A few months ago, they were approved by the American and European drug authorities as a remedy for serious obesity. Tim tells in The Latest News how the drug Ozempic with the active ingredient semaglutide helped him lose his corona kilos. He had to inject the … Read more
In the poll by Maurice de Hond, Caroline van der Plas’ BBB is now the second party in the country with 18 seats. BBB now has 1 seat. The VVD goes from 34 to 21, D66 from 24 to 12, the PVV would lose 2 seats and end up at 15. PvdA and GroenLinks together … Read more
Johan Derksen still does not rule out the possibility that he and his colleagues from Today Inside will move to broadcaster PowNed in the future. “Maybe we’ll become colleagues again,” he told a reporter for that broadcaster. Derksen is still angry with Talpa’s bosses, who distanced themselves from him when he proudly told him that … Read more
Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is relatively unknown, but it is much more common than anorexia and bulimia. Patients suffer from compulsive binge eating, but show no compensatory behavior afterwards. It was only in 2013 that BED was included as a separate disorder in the psychology bible, the DSM-V. The main difference from anorexia and bulimia … Read more
Having nightmares may be an early sign of Parkinson’s disease, a new study reveals. A team from the University of Birmingham says older men who have frequent nightmares are more than three times more likely to develop the disease later on. Apparently there is something happening in the brains of patients – before the disease … Read more